"Big Hero 6: The Series" News & Discussion Thread, Part 1 (Spoilers)

[RoyalRubble]

From Animation Magazine:

A customizable, interactive virtual assistant called Pocket Baymax launches on DisneyNOW the same day. Need more digital incentive? Two full-length episodes of Big Hero 6: The Series will debut exclusively on DisneyNOW and Disney XD VOD immediately after the movie airs, ahead of its official broadcast premiere in early 2018. Starting Nov. 24, a series of shorts will rollout each Friday for six weeks on Disney XD, the app and the network’s YouTube channel. An international TV rollout for the whole lot will occur throughout 2018.

 

[Frontier]

New Promo:

 

[RoyalRubble]

Here's the log-line for "Baymax Returns", from the Disney Press website:

Set in the fictional city of San Fransokyo, 14-year-old tech genius Hiro begins school as the new prodigy at San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and sets off to rebuild Baymax. However, his overconfidence and penchant for taking shortcuts leads him and the newly minted Big Hero 6 team – Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred – into trouble.

Both parts have the same synopsis. Interesting to note the production codes for the premiere are 104 & 105.

 

[Greg91]

Animation Magazine has an article about Big Hero 6: The Series, specifically the art style, writing Baymax, further developing the other team members, etc.

 

[RoyalRubble]

A bunch of images from the series premiere are available on the Disney Press website:
http://www.disneyabcpress.com/disneyxd/shows/big-hero-6/episodes/baymax-returns-part-i-ii/

EDIT:
From Collider, a review of the first episodes. Possible spoilers. The rating they give it is 3 stars, "good".
http://collider.com/big-hero-6-baymax-returns-review/

And an interview with Khary Payton about voicing Wasabi
http://collider.com/khary-payton-interview-big-hero-6-bay-max-returns/

 

[spyke]

Has anyone watched the 2 bonus episodes that premiered on Disney Now and Disney VOD?

 

[SweetShop209]

It's interesting how the Khary Payton interview mentions how the cast usually doesn't together. That is at least the fourth Disney show Lisa Schaffer is the voice director of where the cast doesn't always record together. The other three are Kim Possible, Phineas And Ferb, and Miles From Tomorrowland.

 

[Rick Jones]

Has anyone watched the 2 bonus episodes that premiered on Disney Now and Disney VOD?

All I've seen uploaded were the premiere episodes. The press statement had some odd wording to me, so those could be the two episodes.

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[Dudley]

Has anyone watched the 2 bonus episodes that premiered on Disney Now and Disney VOD?

I kept checking back but all that’s there is the premiere 2-parter.


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[spyke]

I could be wrong, but I think that this might be a preview clip from one of the BH6 shorts.

 

[SweetShop209]

It looks like the shorts involve Baymax

 

[RoyalRubble]

According to Zap2It, the show returns on March 1st. You'd have to check the Episode Guide tab, I can't seem to be able to link directly to it.

Fred's Bro-Tillion
SEASON 1, EPISODE 3
AIRING MAR 01, 2018
When super-villain Baron Von Steamer crashes Fred's Bro-Tillion, Big Hero 6 springs into action.

 

[Frontier]

According to Zap2It, the show returns on March 1st. You'd have to check the Episode Guide tab, I can't seem to be able to link directly to it.

Baron Von Steamer was the villain from one of the first teaser's, so I'm guessing that was from this episode .

"Bro-Tillion." Well, I guess it fits with Fred being a rich dude .

 

[SweetShop209]

It returns on a Thursday? That's unusual.

 

[RoyalRubble]

More episode scheduled for March, according to Zap2It:

Big Roommates
SEASON 1, EPISODE 4
AIRING MAR 08, 2018TV-Y7
A purse thief gets more than he bargained for when he steals Honey Lemon's chem-lab purse and it turns him into a monster.

Issue 188
SEASON 1, EPISODE 5
AIRING MAR 15, 2018TV-Y7
Go Go and Fred dive deep into comic book mythology to try to find a way to defeat High Voltage, a mother-daughter duo who use electricity and the art of dance in their crimes.

 

[Rick Jones]

The mother-daughter aspect of High Voltage reminded me of Bombshell.

When I saw the name Baron Von St---, my brain went somewhere different than Steamer.

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[Frontier]

More episode scheduled for March, according to Zap2It:

I guess one flaw of fighting crime with a purse is you run the risk of a purse-snatcher grabbing it and getting access to all your crazy Superhero stuff in said purse .

A Go-Go and Fred team-up involving comics sounds fun, and High-Voltage sounds like they'll be a lot of fun too .

The mother-daughter aspect of High Voltage reminded me of Bombshell.

From Ultimate Spider-Man? I can see it .

When I saw the name Baron Von St---, my brain went somewhere different than Steamer.

Hopefully Baron Von Steamer will get more screentime then MCU Baron Strucker .

 

[TheLemsterPju]

Are the villains in this intentionally based on Marvel villains but with slight changes?

 

[Rick Jones]

I'm guessing that we probably won't see any 1:1 pastiches but we'll have to wait and see if any villains are clearly inspired by someone else. The Kim Possible series had a lot of fun villains that I thought felt pretty original to themselves.

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[Frontier]

I think any show that's a relatively original Superhero property runs the risk of whatever Rogues Gallery they come up with having similarities to villains from the Big Two, given how prolific they are.